Word: merit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second is very pretty. "My Wall Paper" is a pleasant story by Knoblauch. "A Long Time to Wait" is one of the best things that Chamberlin has written this year. It is a rather pathetic story and is very well done. "Cutting The Leaves" is a poem without much merit. A pretty couplet is "Uncut Pages, begun and ended with liltings learned from olden time." "Under the Profile" is another of Louis How's stories. It is long and at times interesting. The end is flat. "Hal Longworth," is a story of the sensational type, the hero dropping dead...
...written in an entertaining style. The "College Kodaks" are very good, except the one about the faro table which seems a little fantastical. The poetry of the number is far better than the rest of it. "The Mermaid's Song" is fanciful and rather pointless, but it has the merit of being pretty and flows along in a very easy and graceful style. "Moods" by John Mack is charming. In "Charles Baudelaire" he enters deeply into the poet's spirit and expresses himself in a very pleasing manner. The second of the "Moods," the "Ballade of the Weiss-Nicht...
...fixed institutions. Just as Darwin lost his love for poetry and music, so a man finds that his religious self weakens and dies unless it is ever and anon refreshed. Because the Bible is arid in places, they will seek no good things in it, yet for purely literary merit the book is in many ways unsurpassed. Few men have been more found thinkers than Paul, and none have been more pure and beautiful in their conception than John...
...five hundred active members. These will be chosen mostly from the select literary, theatrical and social circles of New York. It is hoped to build a club house and theatre in that city. Once started, the company will proceed to produce as rapidly as possible plays of real literary merit, written by the prominent literary men of the day. The first night will be for the Club alone. Each succeeding entertainment, however, will be open to the public. In the larger cities there will be lists of honorary members, who are entitled to buy tickets for the private performances. Tours...
...dramatic writings are not altogether without merit. His description of the fire and pestilence in London gave evidence of a master mind, and his essay in defense of rhyme has the first step to a simplified and purified English...